CONCORD, N.C. — If there is one sport that people focus on during Memorial Day weekend, it’s motorsports.

Gather in front of the television and watch the IndyCar Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600. It’s a time for broadcast networks to bring out their best and most creative camera angles to enhance the telecast.

Kyle Busch takes a photo of his damaged race car with his phone camera during a red flag in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., May 26, 2013. (Nell Redmond/AP)

But one angle that won’t be used is an overhead cable-supported camera that had recently been employed at both events.

A year ago, a cable holding an overhead camera snapped at Charlotte with NASCAR drivers hitting the cable with their cars and with the synthetic rope injuring fans as it whipped around in the grandstands. The race was delayed for 30 minutes, and teams were given 15 minutes to fix their cars.

NASCAR immediately put a moratorium on the cameras. And ESPN, which used a different vendor than Fox for a similar overhead cable-supported camera, has followed suit in IndyCar with no plans to use an overhead camera at the Indy 500.

“I don’t want to see our company in a position — I don’t want to be in a position — of having that happen, God forbid, and then answering the question, ‘Well, you know what happened in Charlotte. Why did you do it again?’” ESPN vice president of motorsports production Rich Feinberg said in February.

Because cars hit the cable after it snapped as well as fans yanking on the cable in the grandstands, the pieces were too compromised for Fox and camera developer CAMCAT to determine the root cause.

Feinberg said he and ESPN made the decision not to bring the cameras, which are used in other sports, to other forms of motorsports this year. He said in February the added element of cars going at high speeds “can enhance a malfunction” to the point where the risk doesn’t meet the reward.

The synthetic rope that snapped last year was less than a year old and was certified to have a breaking strength of more than 9,300 pounds. The force used for the camera was less than 900 pounds, according to Fox at the time of the accident.

“That was a decision that we made on our own as a company,” Feinberg said. “It’s a wonderful shot but sometimes the risk doesn’t outweigh the reward, and in talking with my engineers, there’s no such thing as a 100 percent guarantee.

“In other sports, if there is a malfunction, the consequences can be different. Here they can be significantly multiplied. … It’s not worth the risk.”

Fox NASCAR anchor Mike Joy said in February that the network continues to look at alternatives to the cable camera, but those talks had not led to any new systems.